Have most schools finished tryouts now?

Or you have an overcrowded HS with over 100 kids showing up for tryouts, many travel players cut, many kids who played last year cut too.

"The purpose is to teach kids a sport that many haven't played before in order to have enough players for the varsity a few years later. That's not necessary for soccer."

At my competitive HS, Freshman soccer was about breaking the bad habits created in travel soccer.

I don't mean that the travel kids were doing something wrong exactly and I think travel is great to gets lots of kids playing time.

The problem was that there were more and more travel teams and so all the kids that made JV were formerly the best player or two on one travel team or another.

This gave them expectations and skills that didn't mesh well in a couple weeks of practice before their first JV season. Once they started a freshmen team, the JV and varsity teams improved.

Anonymous wrote:Is the policy of no more than 2 years on JV a MCPS policy or school specific?

My dd played a different sport and there were definitely juniors on her JV team. No seniors, though-- she is under the impression that they will move seniors to varsity as a courtesy, though I've no idea if she has that right.

mcps, and the teams, at least the schools with quality programs would rather take a younger player who has some upside than an upperclassman that has reached their highest level.

There are freshmen teams in some of the private schools. It is really just an introduction to the school though. They take anyone who wants to play with the better freshmen making the JV team.

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Anonymous wrote:Are there not Freshman teams in MCPS?

No there are not. And JV is 2 years but it may even just be 9th and 10th graders. No juniors were ever on our JV team even if they’d only played 1 year.

There's not freshmen soccer teams in VA either. And if you think about, they're not needed. The purpose is to teach kids a sport that many haven't played before in order to have enough players for the varsity a few years later. That's not necessary for soccer.

Is the policy of no more than 2 years on JV a MCPS policy or school specific?

My dd played a different sport and there were definitely juniors on her JV team. No seniors, though-- she is under the impression that they will move seniors to varsity as a courtesy, though I've no idea if she has that right.

Anonymous wrote:Are there not Freshman teams in MCPS?

No there are not. And JV is 2 years but it may even just be 9th and 10th graders. No juniors were ever on our JV team even if they’d only played 1 year.